Phonetics 【语音】
- consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds; doubled双音的; 双重的：
consonants motivating a short vowel were all originally geminate.
促成短元音的辅音原本都是双音。
派生词
gemination
noun词源
late Middle English: from Latin geminatus, past participle of geminare 'double, pair with', from geminus 'twin'.